Bildnis der Schwägerin des Künstlers

Egon Schiele

Bildnis der Schwägerin des Künstlers is an amazing photogravure realized by the master of German Expressionism Egon Schiele. From the portfolio Handzeichnungen. Published in 1920 by Verlag Eduard Strache, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig.

Bildnis der Schwägerin des Künstlers is an amazing photogravure realized by the master of German Expressionism Egon Schiele. From the portfolio Handzeichnungen. Published in 1920 by Verlag Eduard Strache, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig.

Signed on plate. Edition of 510. Numbered and signed on the colophon.

Good conditions, except for a few small rips on the lower right, top center, and on the middle right.This artwork is very rare. It is very easy to repair and to bring back to its original perfect conditions.

Handzeichnungen, is a portfolio of 15 collotype prints after original watercolors and drawings by Egon Schiele, four of which are in color. It was published by Verlag Eduard Strache, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, 1920, in an edition of 510. A first group numbered I - X were hand signed by Schiele and included an original drawing by Schiele. The art images were printed by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe, Vienna; the portfolio with printed written pages was printed by Gesellschaft fur Graphische Industrie, Wien VI.

Although Egon Schiele’s Handzeichnungen portfolio was published posthumously in 1920, after the big successful of his 1917 portfolio of monochromatic prints entitled Zeichnungen, the artist was already planning a bigger and more elaborate follow-up - upon his untimely death in 1918. Schiele’s first publisher approved the Handzeichnungen’s publication and he also saw the opportunity to showcase Schiele’s work from what had been an entirely mono-chromatic collection of prints (Zeichnungen) to an even more highly sophisticated portfolio including color collotype print work: Handzeichnungen.